Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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451. “The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

452. “Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.”

— Ernest Hemingway

453. “Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”

— Ernest Hemingway

454. “I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”

— Ernest Hemingway

455. “Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day’s work.”

— Ernest Hemingway

456. “Oh, darling, I’ve been so miserable.”

— Ernest Hemingway

457. “Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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458. “It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.”

— Ernest Hemingway

459. “A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.”

— Ernest Hemingway

460. “Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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461. “A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”

— Ernest Hemingway

462. “We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance.”

— Ernest Hemingway

463. “But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.”

— Ernest Hemingway

464. “I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.”

— Ernest Hemingway

465. “I felt very lonely when they were all there.”

— Ernest Hemingway

466. “But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.”

— Ernest Hemingway

467. “It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.”

— Ernest Hemingway

468. “The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.”

— Ernest Hemingway

469. “Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.”

— Ernest Hemingway

470. “Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”

— Ernest Hemingway

471. “Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.”

— Ernest Hemingway

472. “You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”

— Ernest Hemingway

473. “If you’re looking for messages, try Western Union.”

— Ernest Hemingway

474. “My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.”

— Ernest Hemingway

475. “Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.”

— Ernest Hemingway

476. “The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don’t worry.”

— Ernest Hemingway

477. “They arrested us after breakfast.”

— Ernest Hemingway

478. “I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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479. “It’s a town you come to for a short time.”

— Ernest Hemingway

480. “The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.”

— Ernest Hemingway

481. “People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”

— Ernest Hemingway

482. “Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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483. “I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.”

— Ernest Hemingway

484. “As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ’forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

485. “Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.”

— Ernest Hemingway

486. “Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”

— Ernest Hemingway

487. “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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488. “He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”

— Ernest Hemingway

489. “It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.”

— Ernest Hemingway

490. “There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.”

— Ernest Hemingway

491. “We wait always for something that does not come.”

— Ernest Hemingway

492. “For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”

— Ernest Hemingway

493. “Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.”

— Ernest Hemingway

494. “It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

495. “Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?”

— Ernest Hemingway

496. “Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I’ll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.”

— Ernest Hemingway

497. “Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.”

— Ernest Hemingway

498. “Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

499. “A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.”

— Ernest Hemingway

500. “I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.”

— Ernest Hemingway